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enCounter Protests Swamp KKK Celebration in North Carolinahttp://prospect.org/article/counter-protests-swamp-kkk-celebration-north-carolina
<div class="field field-name-field-feature-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://prospect.org/sites/default/files/styles/feature_teaser/public/20161203_124614e_0.jpg?itok=avJ3_gUi" width="220" height="165" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-caption field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Barry Yeoman</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Barry Yeoman Anti-KKK protesters rally in Raleigh. I n the end, Saturday’s “Victory Klavalkade”—a celebration of Donald Trump’s presidency by the North Carolina-based Loyal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan—turned out to be a fleeting sideshow. Outnumbered by protesters and journalists, the Klansmen abandoned their plans to parade through Pelham, a rural community along the state’s northern border where the white supremacist group has its headquarters. Instead, they ended up exulting from the safety of their cars in the old cotton-mill town of Roxboro, 37 miles away. A motorcade of about 30 vehicles barreled through the streets, sporting Confederate flags, as their drivers shouted “white power” to no one in particular. “It is about the size of a funeral procession,” tweeted Burlington Times-News reporter Natalie Janicello. Missing from the parade was a local Klan leader who had been arrested for allegedly stabbing a fellow member the night before. But Saturday was still a big day in...</div></div></div>Mon, 05 Dec 2016 19:20:40 +0000226436 at http://prospect.orgBarry YeomanFor Women’s Reproductive Freedom, a Chill Wind Blows http://prospect.org/article/women%E2%80%99s-reproductive-freedom-chill-wind-blows
<div class="field field-name-field-feature-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://prospect.org/sites/default/files/styles/feature_teaser/public/abortion_trump_1.jpg?itok=FIhMiPcZ" width="220" height="146" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-caption field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">(Photo: AP/Alex Brandon)</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">(Photo: AP/Alex Brandon) Pro-abortion rights protesters attempt to block the March for Life in front of the U.S. Supreme Court, on January 22, 2016. D onald Trump’s plans for an extreme misogynistic makeover of reproductive health care received way too little scrutiny during his noxious, anti-woman campaign. Now, the damage a hard-right Trump administration could inflict on abortion rights and women’s health services more broadly has become impossible to ignore. Trump lost the popular vote and received no mandate to roll back or eliminate a fundamental right that the Supreme Court has recognized as integral to women’s autonomy and equality, but since Election Day, he has made even plainer his commitment to doing exactly that. In his first prime-time TV interview following the election, the president-elect doubled down on his campaign calls to destroy Planned Parenthood, pack federal trial and appellate courts with anti-abortion ideologues, and eventually appoint enough Supreme Court...</div></div></div>Mon, 28 Nov 2016 10:00:16 +0000226371 at http://prospect.orgDorothy SamuelsDonald Trump’s Calibrated Race and Sex Warhttp://prospect.org/article/donald-trump%E2%80%99s-calibrated-race-and-sex-war
<div class="field field-name-field-feature-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://prospect.org/sites/default/files/styles/feature_teaser/public/sessions_nom_1.jpg?itok=-knTQIyW" width="220" height="143" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-caption field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">(Photo: AP/Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">(Photo: AP/Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call) People for the American Way hold a protest on November 18 in Upper Senate Park against the nomination of Senator Jeff Sessions as Donald Trump's Attorney General. I n the presidential appointments made so far by Donald Trump, the president-elect has signaled his willingness to feed his base of angry white people the race war they crave, if only thus far by means of posturing. But early next year, a race war of words will break out on the Senate floor, and there is little escaping the conclusion that this is what the next occupant of the Oval Office wants. For his chief of staff, Trump selected a talented propagandist whose specialty is fanning the flames of outrage through the use of incendiary themes. As chief executive of Breitbart News, Stephen K. Bannon oversaw a web empire which, he boasted, provided “a platform for the alt-right,” the Trump-loving white supremacist movement that the president-elect was finally shamed into disavowing on Tuesday...</div></div></div>Wed, 23 Nov 2016 14:56:50 +0000226366 at http://prospect.orgAdele M. StanUnder Siege, Abortion-Rights Advocates Must Link Health Care to Economic Prosperity http://prospect.org/article/under-siege-abortion-rights-advocates-must-link-health-care-economic-prosperity
<div class="field field-name-field-feature-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://prospect.org/sites/default/files/styles/feature_teaser/public/abortion_under_siege_1.jpg?itok=6WVMsZF2" width="220" height="146" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-caption field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">(Photo: Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">(Photo: Leah Hogsten/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP) Brandi Jensen, center, speaks with an anti-abortion protester at a community rally hosted by the Planned Parenthood Action Council in Salt Lake City on August, 25, 2015. A nti-abortion advocates are rejoicing in the wake of Donald Trump’s election. In their view, Roe v. Wade , the Supreme Court decision that upheld a woman constitutional right to abortion and that barred states from banning the procedure in the ﬁrst trimester, was on the ballot. In the words of the National Right to Life Committee’s Dave Andrusko : “The pro-life side—the defenders of unborn babies—won.” Roe v. Wade could be on the chopping block, as could Doe v. Bolton , the Supreme Court case that defined viability as the potential for a fetus to live outside of the womb. As Students for Life President Kristan Hawkins told supporters in an email, “It’s now very easy to imagine a day when Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton will be overturned, and when Planned Parenthood,...</div></div></div>Mon, 21 Nov 2016 10:00:11 +0000226340 at http://prospect.orgDeana A. RohlingerA Government Of, By, and For the Deplorableshttp://prospect.org/article/government-and-deplorables
<div class="field field-name-field-feature-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://prospect.org/sites/default/files/styles/feature_teaser/public/20161112_151747_1.jpg?itok=_RsuHP1Y" width="220" height="165" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-caption field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">(Adele M. Stan)</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">(Photo: Adele M. Stan) A protester in Manhattan on Saturday, November 12 holds a sign protesting Trump's election. The joke had long been that if Donald Trump won the presidency, the White House would be reappointed with the gold-plated kitsch so prevalent in his real-estate holdings. A better choice, it seems, would be wicker, for if there ever was a basket of deplorables, it’s taking shape in the West Wing. Most notable among them is Stephen K. Bannon, the former Breitbart News chief executive who will serve as Trump’s chief strategist. As Breitbart’s head honcho, Bannon told journalist Sarah Posner that he fashioned the website as “ the platform for the alt-right ,” the once-fringy movement that encompasses white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and hate-mongering conspiracy theorists. Bannon’s appointment won applause , according to The Washington Post ’s David Weigel, from white nationalist leader Richard Spencer, who is convening a conference in Washington, D.C., this weekend at the...</div></div></div>Fri, 18 Nov 2016 14:56:53 +0000226333 at http://prospect.orgAdele M. StanTrump’s Awful Behavior Drives Away Women, But So Does His Anti-Woman Platformhttp://prospect.org/article/trump%E2%80%99s-awful-behavior-drives-away-women-so-does-his-anti-woman-platform
<div class="field field-name-field-feature-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://prospect.org/sites/default/files/styles/feature_teaser/public/ap16309031804441_0.jpg?itok=aUMHy0p_" width="220" height="147" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-caption field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">AP Photo/Evan Vucci</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">AP Photo/Evan Vucci Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves as he speaks during a campaign rally, Thursday, November 3, 2016, in Selma, North Carolina. A s we near the conclusion of this year’s bizarre and decidedly unpleasant presidential election, I find my thoughts turning to last month’s successful mass protest by Polish women to defeat that country’s plan to ban abortion completely, and to imprison for up to five years both women seeking the procedure and doctors who perform it. Specifically, I am struck by the resemblance between Poland’s draconian proposal to further restrict abortion—that country already permits the procedure only in extremely limited circumstances—and the radical rollback in women’s basic reproductive rights proposed by notorious misogynist and White House wannabe, Donald Trump, and his running mate/enabler Mike Pence. The two are pledging, among other things, to appoint Supreme Court justices who would consign Roe. v. Wade “to the ash heap of...</div></div></div>Mon, 07 Nov 2016 10:00:00 +0000226232 at http://prospect.orgDorothy SamuelsHow the Anti-choice Movement Paved the Way for Trumphttp://prospect.org/article/how-anti-choice-movement-paved-way-trump
<div class="field field-name-field-feature-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://prospect.org/sites/default/files/styles/feature_teaser/public/anti-choice_texas_1.jpg?itok=qouwgHjt" width="220" height="144" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-caption field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">(Photo: AP/Tamir Kalifa)</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">(Photo: AP/Tamir Kalifa) Anti-abortion rights supporter Katherine Aguilar prays at the State Capitol rotunda in Austin, Texas, on July 12, 2013. I n a stunning stunning piece titled “From Roe to Trump” in Wednesday’s New York Times , columnist Ross Douthat serves up a revisionist history of the anti-choice movement, holding up its alleged pacifism as the rationale for conservative opposition to the presidential candidacy of Donald J. Trump. There are plenty of reasons for anyone of any political stripe to oppose Trump, but to accept Douthat’s premise of the anti-choice movement as some Peaceable Kingdom of Fetus Protectors is to live in Upside-Down Land. For, if any cultural movement paved the way for Trump, it is the one that seeks to deprive women of agency over their own bodies. Douthat does a neat trick of trying to separate what he calls the “mainstream pro-life movement” and the anti-choice extremists who incite with violent rhetoric those who do physical violence. I’ve sat at...</div></div></div>Wed, 02 Nov 2016 16:01:47 +0000226209 at http://prospect.orgAdele M. StanThe Trans Paradoxhttp://prospect.org/article/trans-paradox
<div class="field field-name-field-feature-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://prospect.org/sites/default/files/styles/feature_teaser/public/ap266077894118_1.jpg?itok=QYnXbzDh" width="220" height="158" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-caption field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Rex Features via AP Images</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Rex Features via AP Images Caitlyn Jenner participates in E!'s "I Am Cait" panel at the NBCUniversal Winter TCA in Pasadena, California. I n the summer of 2015, ten days after Caitlyn Jenner came out as transgender on the cover of Vanity Fair , a debate erupted about whether a woman named Rachel Dolezal could be considered “transracial.” Dolezal had long presented herself as black—indeed, she was a local official of the NAACP in Spokane, Washington—but had just been “outed” by her parents as white. Dolezal's claim to identify as black was widely condemned and ridiculed, although she had long been immersed in African American culture and social networks as well as political activism. Dolezal insists that “nothing about whiteness describes who I am.” Understandings of sex and gender have shifted dramatically in recent decades as transsexual and transgender identities have moved from the margins to the mainstream. A broadening segment of the public, especially among the young, urban, and...</div></div></div>Wed, 02 Nov 2016 14:59:35 +0000226207 at http://prospect.orgRogers BrubakerTurning Out the Pro-Choice Votehttp://prospect.org/article/turning-out-pro-choice-vote
<div class="field field-name-field-feature-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://prospect.org/sites/default/files/styles/feature_teaser/public/pp_election_1.jpg?itok=7bWDUKru" width="220" height="156" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-caption field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">(Photo: AP/Susan Walsh)</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">(Photo: AP/Susan Walsh) Protesters rally outside the Supreme Court on March 2, 2016. A week out from Election Day, perhaps no state is more closely watched than Pennsylvania. The neck-and-neck Senate race between incumbent Republican Pat Toomey and Democratic challenger Katie McGinty has already won the title of most expensive senate race in U.S. history, with more than $118 million spent by the end of September. Democrats need to net four seats to win control of the Senate, and more than $87 million in outside spending has already poured into Pennsylvania’s race. With 20 electoral votes, the state is also critical for the presidential contest. Though Pennsylvania hasn’t elected a Republican for president since the 1980s, the GOP controls the state legislature, and residents in more conservative parts of the state have particularly responded to Donald Trump’s promises to boost manufacturing and coal and natural gas production. With the state’s rural regions increasingly Republican,...</div></div></div>Tue, 01 Nov 2016 09:00:51 +0000226193 at http://prospect.orgRachel M. CohenTrump Surrogate Gingrich Slut-Shames Megyn Kellyhttp://prospect.org/article/denying-misogyny-doubling-down-misogyny-trump-surrogate-gingrich-tries-slut-shame-megyn
<div class="field field-name-field-feature-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="http://prospect.org/sites/default/files/styles/feature_teaser/public/ap950461275082_0.jpg?itok=bHhTj5Zn" width="220" height="147" alt="" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-caption field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">AP Photo/ Evan Vucci</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">AP Photo/ Evan Vucci Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich introduces Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a campaign rally, Monday, September 19, 2016, in Ft. Myers, Florida. W hen, as a campaign surrogate and once-powerful white man, you answer allegations that your candidate may be a sexual predator with a sex-laced attack on your female interviewer, you’re probably a misogynist. A desperate misogynist. That’s what former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is looking like this morning. During a Tuesday discussion of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s sinking poll numbers, Gingrich accused Fox News Channel host Megyn Kelly of being “fascinated with sex” when she dared to mention that Trump’s fortunes began falling after the now infamous Access Hollywood video, featuring Trump boasting about his self-proclaimed prerogative to sexually assault women, became public on October 7, and nearly a dozen women came forward to allege that Trump had either assaulted...</div></div></div>Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:11:04 +0000226146 at http://prospect.orgAdele M. Stan